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The 2008 FIFA Club World Cup was the fifth FIFA Club World Cup
FIFA Club World Cup

The FIFA Club World Cup, formerly known as the FIFA Club World Championship, is a Association football competition contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, although, since 2007, the champions of Oceania Football Confederation must play a qualifying play-off against the champion club of the host count...
, a football tournament for the champion clubs from each of FIFA
FIFA

The F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by its acronym, FIFA , is the international sport governing body of association football....
's six continental confederations. The tournament was held in Japan from 11 December to 21 December 2008. Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is an English association football club, based at Old Trafford in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with over 330 million supporters worldwide ? almost 5% of the world's population....
 defeated LDU Quito 1–0 in the final at the International Stadium in Yokohama
Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kanto region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area....
 on 21 December, to become the first British team to win the competition.

The fifth-place match, dropped for the 2007 tournament
2007 FIFA Club World Cup

The 2007 FIFA Club World Cup was a association football tournament played in Japan from 7 December to 16 December 2007. It was the fourth FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament organised by FIFA for the winners of each confederation's top continental club tournament....
, was reintroduced for 2008, with the total prize money being increased by US$
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
500,000 to US$16.5 million.






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The 2008 FIFA Club World Cup was the fifth FIFA Club World Cup
FIFA Club World Cup

The FIFA Club World Cup, formerly known as the FIFA Club World Championship, is a Association football competition contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, although, since 2007, the champions of Oceania Football Confederation must play a qualifying play-off against the champion club of the host count...
, a football tournament for the champion clubs from each of FIFA
FIFA

The F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by its acronym, FIFA , is the international sport governing body of association football....
's six continental confederations. The tournament was held in Japan from 11 December to 21 December 2008. Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is an English association football club, based at Old Trafford in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with over 330 million supporters worldwide ? almost 5% of the world's population....
 defeated LDU Quito 1–0 in the final at the International Stadium in Yokohama
Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kanto region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area....
 on 21 December, to become the first British team to win the competition.

The fifth-place match, dropped for the 2007 tournament
2007 FIFA Club World Cup

The 2007 FIFA Club World Cup was a association football tournament played in Japan from 7 December to 16 December 2007. It was the fourth FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament organised by FIFA for the winners of each confederation's top continental club tournament....
, was reintroduced for 2008, with the total prize money being increased by US$
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
500,000 to US$16.5 million. The winners took away US$5 million, the losing finalists US$4 million, the third-placed team US$2.5 million, the fourth-placed team US$2 million, the fifth-placed team US$1.5 million, the sixth-placed team US$1 million and the seventh-placed team US$500,000.

Qualifying teams

TeamAssociationQualification
Semi-finals
LDU QuitoCONMEBOL
CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL or CSF is the governing body of football in most of South America and one of FIFA's six continental confederations. It was founded by Uruguayan H?ctor Rivadavia G?mez....
Winners of Copa Libertadores 2008
Copa Libertadores 2008

The 2008 Copa Libertadores was the 49th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's annual international club tournament. 38 teams qualified for this tournament and 6 of them were knocked-out in the preliminary round....
Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is an English association football club, based at Old Trafford in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with over 330 million supporters worldwide ? almost 5% of the world's population....
UEFA
UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations is the administrative and controlling body for European association football. It is almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA ....
Winners of UEFA Champions League 2007–08
UEFA Champions League 2007–08

The 2007–08 UEFA Champions League was the 16th season of UEFA's premier European club association football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since it was rebranded in 1992, and the 53rd tournament overall....
Quarter-finals
PachucaCONCACAF
CONCACAF

CONCACAF is the continent-wide governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Three South American entities, the independent nations of Guyana and Suriname, and the France department of France of French Guiana, are also members....
Winners of CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2008
CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2008

The 2008 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 43rd and final edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region ....
Gamba Osaka
Gamba Osaka

is a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 1. The team's name comes from the Italian word "Gamba" meaning "leg" and the Japanese , meaning "to do your best" or "to stand firm"....
AFC
Asian Football Confederation

The 46 member Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of football in Asia, excluding Cyprus and Israel, and including Australia.The AFC was founded in 1954 in Manila, Philippines, and is one of FIFA's six continental confederations....
Winners of AFC Champions League 2008
AFC Champions League 2008

The AFC Champions League 2008 was the 27th AFC Champions League, the top-level Asian club association football tournament, and the 6th under the current AFC Champions League title....
Al-Ahly
Al-Ahly

Al-Ahly is an Egyptian association football club based in Cairo. Founded in April 1907, Al-Ahly is widely-regarded as Africa's most successful club....
CAF
Confederation of African Football

The Conf?d?ration Africaine de Football , is the administrative and controlling body for African association football. It is almost always referred to by its acronym CAF ....
Winners of CAF Champions League 2008
CAF Champions League 2008

The CAF Champions League 2008 was the 12th running of the CAF Champions League competition. Al-Ahly of Egypt achieved an unprecented 6th Champions League cup by winning 4-2 on aggregate against Cotonsport Garoua of Cameroon ....
Play-off for Quarter-finals
Waitakere United
Waitakere United

Waitakere United is a football club based in Waitakere City, New Zealand. They are one of the franchises in the New Zealand Football Championship New Zealand Football Championship....
OFC
Oceania Football Confederation

The Oceania Football Confederation is one of the six "continental" confederations of international football , consisting of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and island nations such as Tonga, Fiji and other Pacific Islands countries....
Winners of OFC Champions League 2007–08
Adelaide United
Adelaide United FC

Adelaide United Football Club is a Association football team based in Adelaide, South Australia. It currently participates in the A-League as the sole team from the state of South Australia....
Host
Japan Football Association

The , also known as the JFA, is the Sport governing body responsible for the Administration of football in Japan. It is responsible for the Japan national football team as well as club competitions....
*		Runners-up of AFC Champions League 2008
AFC Champions League 2008

The AFC Champions League 2008 was the 27th AFC Champions League, the top-level Asian club association football tournament, and the 6th under the current AFC Champions League title....
*
* - As Gamba Osaka won the AFC CL
AFC Champions League 2008

The AFC Champions League 2008 was the 27th AFC Champions League, the top-level Asian club association football tournament, and the 6th under the current AFC Champions League title....
, this spot was taken by Adelaide United as the highest-placed non-Japanese team in the AFC CL.

Referees

Referee Assistants
African Zone
Mohamed Benouza
Mohamed Benouza

Mohamed Benouza is an Algeria football Referee who currently resides in Oran. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2001....
Asian Zone
Ravshan Irmatov
Ravshan Irmatov

Ravshan Irmatov is an Uzbekistan football Referee who currently resides in Tashkent. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2003....
Yuichi Nishimura
Yuichi Nishimura

is an Japan Association football Referee who has been a full international referee for FIFA.He was the only Asia referee and one of three judges selected to judge in 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana along with Assistant referee Toru Sagara from Japan and Hae Sang Jeong from North Korea....
European Zone
Alberto Undiano Mallenco
Alberto Undiano Mallenco

Alberto Undiano Mallenco is a Spain football Referee who currently resides in Anso?in. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2004....
North, Central American and Caribbean Zone
Benito Archundia
Benito Archundia

Benito Armando Archundia T?llez is a Mexican is a football referee. He is known in Mexico as Armando Archundia, but appears as Benito Archundia in FIFA records....
Oceanian Zone
Peter O'Leary
Peter O'Leary

Peter O'Leary is a New Zealand Football Referee , previously of Wellington but now residing and working in Hamilton, New Zealand. He operates in the Australia A-League and the New Zealand Football Championship, and his other occupation is as a schoolteacher....
South American Zone
Pablo Pozo
Pablo Pozo

Pablo Pozo is a Chilean Association football referee . He referees in the Primera Divisi?n de Chile. In 2008 Pozo refereed in the Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament and the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan....


Squads

For a list of all the squads of this tournament, see the article 2008 FIFA Club World Cup squads
2008 FIFA Club World Cup squads

The 2008 FIFA Club World Cup is being played in Japan from 11 December to 21 December 2008. Each team involved in the competition had to submit a provisional squad of 30 players by 5 November 2008, with the list to be narrowed down to a final squad of 23 players by 27 November....
.


Matches


Bracket


All times are Japan Standard Time
Japan Standard Time

Japan Standard Time or JST is the standard timezone of Japan, and is UTC+9 of Coordinated Universal Time. For example, when it is midnight in UTC, it is 9 am in Japan Standard Time....
 (UTC+9
UTC+9

UTC+9 is a time zone used for the following locations:...
)

Play-off for Quarter-finals


Quarter-finals


Semi-finals


Match for fifth place


Match for third place


Final


FIFA Club World Cup
2008 Winners
Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is an English association football club, based at Old Trafford in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with over 330 million supporters worldwide ? almost 5% of the world's population....

First title


Scorers

3 goals
  • Wayne Rooney
    Wayne Rooney

    Wayne Mark Rooney is an English people Association football who currently plays as a striker for English Premier League club Manchester United F.C....
     (Manchester United)


2 goals
  • Yasuhito Endo
    Yasuhito Endo

    is a Japanese Football from Kagoshima, Kagoshima in Kagoshima Prefecture. Short and stocky, the versatile midfielder usually operates as a defensive midfielder, and currently plays for the J....
     (Gamba Osaka)
  • Christian Giménez
    Christian Giménez (1981)

    Christian "El Chaco" Gim?nez Chaco is an Argentina Association football player who currently plays for C.F. Pachuca in Mexico's professional league, the Primera Divisi?n de M?xico....
     (Pachuca)
  • Masato Yamazaki
    Masato Yamazaki

    Masato Yamazaki is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Japanese club Gamba Osaka....
     (Gamba Osaka)


1 goal
  • Damián Álvarez
    Damian Ariel Álvarez

    Dami?n Ariel ?lvarez "La chilindrina" is an Argentine-Mexican midfielder, who currently plays for C.F. Pachuca of the Primera Divisi?n de M?xico....
     (Pachuca)
  • Claudio Bieler
    Claudio Bieler

    Claudio Daniel Bieler is footballer, who currently plays for Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito from Quito, Ecuador. In 2005 Bieler made his professional debut with Primera Divisi?n Argentina squad Col?n de Santa Fe....
     (LDU Quito)
  • Luis Bolaños
    Luis Bolaños

    Luis Alberto Bola?os Le?n is an Ecuadorian football player, who plays midfielder for Santos Futebol Clube and the Ecuador national football team....
     (LDU Quito)
  • Cristiano
    Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues

    For other persons named Cristiano, see Cristiano Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues , commonly referred to as Cristiano, is a professional Brazilian association football who plays for Adelaide United....
     (Adelaide United)
  • Travis Dodd
    Travis Dodd

    Travis Dodd is an Indigenous Australians football player. He is the captain of Adelaide United FC in the A-League and plays as an Attacking_midfielder#Attacking_midfielder or Attacking_midfielder#Wide_midfielder....
     (Adelaide United)
1 goal, cont.
  • Flávio
    Flávio Amado

    Fl?vio Amado da Silva , better known as Fl?vio, is an Angolan football forward who currently, as of May 2006, plays for Al Ahly in Egypt....
     (Al-Ahly)
  • Darren Fletcher
    Darren Fletcher

    Darren Barr Fletcher is a Scotland association footballer currently playing for Premier League club Manchester United F.C.....
     (Manchester United)
  • Hideo Hashimoto
    Hideo Hashimoto

    is a Japanese football player. His place of birth is Osaka. He is a defensive midfielder and currently plays for Gamba Osaka. Hashimoto is an Osaka City University graduate....
     (Gamba Osaka)
  • Luis Montes
    Luis Montes

    Luis Arturo Montes Jim?nez is a Mexican association football playing for C.F. PachucaExternal links* at MedioTiempo.com ...
     (Pachuca)
  • Daniel Mullen
    Daniel Mullen (footballer)

    Daniel Mullen is an Australian football midfielder player who currently plays for in the A-League. Daniel is the cousin of Matthew Mullen and son of former Socceroo Joe Mullen ....
     (Adelaide United)
  • Cristiano Ronaldo
    Cristiano Ronaldo

    Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, Order of Infante D. Henrique is a Portugal association football who plays as a Midfielder#Winger for English Premier League club Manchester United F.C....
     (Manchester United)
  • Paul Seaman
    Paul Seaman

    Paul Seaman is a professional footballer. Born in Cardiff,Wales on 21 May, 1975. Seaman plays centre-midfield for Waitakere United in Auckland, New Zealand....
     (Waitakere United)
  • Nemanja Vidic
    Nemanja Vidic

    Nemanja Vidic is a Serbian association football. He plays for the English club Manchester United F.C. in the Premier League and for the Serbia national football team....
     (Manchester United)


Own goal
  • Fausto Pinto
    Fausto Pinto

    Fausto Manuel Pinto Rosas is a Mexico football Defender currently playing for Cruz Azul in the Primera Divisi?n de M?xico.On December 23,2008 Fausto Pinto Left C.F....
     (Pachuca; scored for Al-Ahly)


Tournament round-up


Final standings

PosTeamNationConfederation
1 Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is an English association football club, based at Old Trafford in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with over 330 million supporters worldwide ? almost 5% of the world's population....
 		 UEFA
UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations is the administrative and controlling body for European association football. It is almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA ....
2 LDU Quito CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL or CSF is the governing body of football in most of South America and one of FIFA's six continental confederations. It was founded by Uruguayan H?ctor Rivadavia G?mez....
3 Gamba Osaka
Gamba Osaka

is a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 1. The team's name comes from the Italian word "Gamba" meaning "leg" and the Japanese , meaning "to do your best" or "to stand firm"....
 		 AFC
Asian Football Confederation

The 46 member Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of football in Asia, excluding Cyprus and Israel, and including Australia.The AFC was founded in 1954 in Manila, Philippines, and is one of FIFA's six continental confederations....
4 Pachuca CONCACAF
CONCACAF

CONCACAF is the continent-wide governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Three South American entities, the independent nations of Guyana and Suriname, and the France department of France of French Guiana, are also members....
5 Adelaide United
Adelaide United FC

Adelaide United Football Club is a Association football team based in Adelaide, South Australia. It currently participates in the A-League as the sole team from the state of South Australia....
 		 AFC
Asian Football Confederation

The 46 member Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of football in Asia, excluding Cyprus and Israel, and including Australia.The AFC was founded in 1954 in Manila, Philippines, and is one of FIFA's six continental confederations....
6 Al-Ahly
Al-Ahly

Al-Ahly is an Egyptian association football club based in Cairo. Founded in April 1907, Al-Ahly is widely-regarded as Africa's most successful club....
 		 CAF
Confederation of African Football

The Conf?d?ration Africaine de Football , is the administrative and controlling body for African association football. It is almost always referred to by its acronym CAF ....
7 Waitakere United
Waitakere United

Waitakere United is a football club based in Waitakere City, New Zealand. They are one of the franchises in the New Zealand Football Championship New Zealand Football Championship....
 		 OFC
Oceania Football Confederation

The Oceania Football Confederation is one of the six "continental" confederations of international football , consisting of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and island nations such as Tonga, Fiji and other Pacific Islands countries....

Awards


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